In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of ...

In March 2009, President Obama issued an executive order intended to bolster human embryonic stem (hES) cell research in the United States. Despite this announcement, federal support and funding ...

Bush's decision in August 2001 to permit federal financing for research on human embryonic stem (ES ... Gearhart brought the issue of government funding of stem-cell research to the fore.

The National Institutes of Health says the cuts will save more than $4 billion a year, but critics say it puts potentially lifesaving research in jeopardy.

But that's not so. Indirect costs include lab space, data storage, regulatory compliance and administrative support. The ...

As controversial as embryonic stem cell research can be ... noncloned embryos that are approved for U.S. federal funding. Now it is perfecting methods of turning those cells into the kind of ...

Research that shows stem cells are found in amniotic fluid is good news for the future. The revelation made Sunday by researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University should quiet ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...

Embryonic stem cells are occupying the ... House by a large bipartisan majority that would lift the ban on federal funding for research on ES cells derived after the 2001 freeze on 22 cell lines.